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Amanda, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the LAN administrator to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single large capacity tape drive, tape changer, disk, or cloud. | Amanda, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the LAN administrator to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single large capacity tape drive, tape changer, disk, or cloud. | ||
Amanda uses native dump and/or [http://directory.fsf.org/tar.html GNU tar] facilities and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of UNIX. Amanda can also back up the data from Microsoft Windows hosts using either the native [[Zmanda Windows Client]] or [http://www.samba.org Samba]. | Amanda uses native dump and/or [http://directory.fsf.org/tar.html GNU tar] facilities and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of UNIX. Amanda can also back up the data from Microsoft Windows hosts using either the native [[Zmanda Windows Client]] or [http://www.samba.org Samba]. | ||
Latest revision as of 23:39, 1 January 2011
Deprecated
see GSWA
see GSWA
Amanda, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the LAN administrator to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single large capacity tape drive, tape changer, disk, or cloud.
Amanda uses native dump and/or GNU tar facilities and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of UNIX. Amanda can also back up the data from Microsoft Windows hosts using either the native Zmanda Windows Client or Samba.